For I have not spoken from my own authority,<n id="1" /> but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me<n id="2" /> what I should say and what I should speak.

I will not speak with you much longer,<n id="1" /> for the ruler of this world is coming.<n id="2" /> He has no power over me,<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I have told you these things in obscure figures of speech;<n id="1" /> a time<n id="2" /> is coming when I will no longer speak to you in obscure figures, but will tell you<n id="3" /> plainly<n id="4" /> about the Father.

It is written in the law: &#8220;<i><b>By people with strange tongues and by the lips of strangersb> <b>I will speak to this peopleb>, <b>yet not even in this way will they listen to meb>i>,&#8221;<n id="1" /> says the Lord.

<p class="bodytext">Now, brothers and sisters,<n id="1" /> if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I help you unless I speak to you with a revelation or with knowledge or prophecy or teaching?